Catalog

Record Details

Catalog Search



A minor chorus : a novel / Billy-Ray Belcourt.

Summary:
"A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief. In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban intelligentsia. Billy-Ray Belcourt's unnamed narrator chronicles a series of encounters: a heart-to-heart with fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on marginalized scholars; a meeting with Michael, a closeted adult from his hometown whose vulnerability and loneliness punctuate the realities of queer life on the fringe. Amid these conversations, the narrator is haunted by memories of Jack, a cousin caught in the cycle of police violence, drugs, and survival. Jack's life parallels the narrator's own; the possibilities of escape and imprisonment are left to chance with colonialism stacking the odds. A Minor Chorus introduces the dazzling literary voice of a Lambda Literary Award winner and Canadian #1 national best-selling poet to the United States, shining much-needed light on the realities of Indigenous survival"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781324021421
  • ISBN: 132402142X
  • Physical Description: 162 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022]
Subject: Doctoral students > Fiction.
Sexual minorities > Fiction.
Cree people > Fiction.
Alberta, Northern > Fiction.
Genre: Novels.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Dimmick Main Library F BEL (Text) 304441003420731 Adult Fiction Available -
Easton Main Library BELCOURT (Text) 31901004658284 Adult Fiction Available -


Additional Resources